Motor-carriage body



Oct. 20, 1,557,688

- C. W. A. HANNEBOHN MOTOR CARRIAGE BODY Filed Jan. 10, 1925 Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

UNITED STATES.

o'URT WILLIBALD ALEXIS 'HANNEBOHN, or BERLIN-JCI-TIARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY,

.assreivonro ALEXIS KELLNER, or BEn IN-cHARLo'rrEn UR GERMANY.

MoroR cARRIAeEnonm;

w Application i iled l'anuary 10, 1925. Serial No. 1,680.

To all whom it may concern: J

Be it known that I, CURT WILLIBALD ALEXIS HA nEBoHN, acitizen of the German Republic, and resident of Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improved Motor-Carriage Body, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a motor-carriage body having two doors on each of its two sides and a common axle-forming column or standard for each pair of doors, the.

arrangement being such that the two doors connected with one another in this manner can be turned towards one another. Each door is provided in known manner wth vertically turnable window guides which move together with it when it is opened or closed. When the carriage is completely closed and the doors are also closed, it is necessary to provide a good weather-proof joint between the up-standing window guides, and it has already been proposed to provide the guides with packing ledges on their back-faces.

In the customary construction, in which each door is pivoted to the common standard by an individual pair of hinges, the packing ledges necessarily must be made of soft rubber in order to permitopening of the doors when the window guides are in the vertical position, the ledges moving past one another because of their yieldingness. Packing ledges having projections and grooves engaging each other or rabbets could not be used for the motor-carriage bodies as devised hitherto, as the opening of only one of the two doors on either side of the carriage body would then be impossible. The use of rubber entails the drawback that the packing ledges become useless after a comparatively short time which is due partly to influences of the weather and partly to the frequent opening and closing of the doors. The rubber packing ledges must be replaced, therefore, by new ones after a comparatively short time, whereas packing ledges operating with feather and oove or with rabbets do not suffer from the drawback stated.

The object of my invention is to render possible the employment of these latter packing members in connection with the doors of motor-carriage bodies, it being understood that I have in view motor-carriage bodies with two doors on either side.- For this purpose I hinge the two doors to a common I standard or column arranged somewhat outside the carriage body and be-! 1ng carried by it by suitable ineans, as described hereinafter by ,way of example. My invention is illustrated by way, of example in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is ,a side-view of a completely closed motor-carriage; Figure 2 showsthis carriagein open state; Figures 3 and 4 are horizontal sections in the plane AB of Figure 1, these figures being drawn to an enlarged scale and Figure 3 showing the doors closed, Figure't open.

On. the drawing a denotes the carriage body and b c are its doors; they are hinged by hinges d, e to a common vertical standard or column f on which each of them may be turned independently of the other. The standard or column f is located at some distance from the outer face of the carriage body and supported by arms t projecting forth from said outer face.

The doors. b, 0 enclose, as usual, the windows g. h. which are held by vertical members i, 27 and 70, k These members are bipartite, and their upper parts are connected with the lower ones by hinges, so that the upper parts can be swung into vertical position, or'folded down upon the spaces provided in the doors for the reception of the windows when the carriageis to be used in open state. n denotes the top or hood of the carriage body; it is shown in Fig. 1 in closed state and in Fig. 2 in open state.

Those faces of the members Z and m which are located opposite one anotherwhen they stand upright are provided with separate tightening ledges 0 and p, of which 0 is provided with a groove 9 of semi-circular section, and p is provided with a correspondingly shaped feather 1" which engages the groove 9 when the parts in question are in the position shown in Fig. 3. The parts 0, g on one side and p, r on the other side form together a tight closure preventing effectively the entrance of air into the completely closed carriage body.

The members 1, 0 and m, p together may, in uprightposition, be employed as a supporting column for the roof or hood; they themselves are supported in this position by the vertical member s (Fig. 4) which is located between the body spaces receiving or containing the doors I) and c. The arms the tightening member 0, g or theztightening:

member p, r.

I claim: In combination ith a motor-carriage having; two doors either side: we

hinge-smeared: at some distance; from the lateral faces of the carriag body, 0nje on one ide, the other on the-other side of said body andeach being adapted to' serve for 'gni'de'swlrich are located opposite one another When in upright position, one of the tighten-mg ledges-on either side of the carriage body having a longitudinal recess and the other haVi-ng corresponding projee ti-o'n adap-tecl'to engage said recess: 7 I IH Witness Whereof,; I have" hereunto signed my name. e

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